Brooklyn Vegan — Life is Beautiful festival returned to downtown Las Vegas for its sixth edition over the weekend, with sets from Arcade Fire, Death Cab for Cutie, Florence + The Machine, The Weeknd, St. Vincent, Tyler the Creator, Justice, Travis Scott, Miguel and m... more info

Consequence of Sound — In support of their latest album, Thank You For Today. more info

Chorus.fm — Death Cab for Cutie performed “Gold Rush” on Ellen yesterday. On that note, am I the only one that thinks this is the wrong single to promote from this album? I think this is a solid album, but this song is in the bottom tier. more info

Chorus.fm — Death Cab for Cutie have covered Frightened Rabbit’s “Backwards Walk” for Spotify. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Death Cab for Cutie released their ninth album, Thank You For Today, a couple of weeks ago, and today they've shared a new Spotify Single that includes a cover of former tourmates Frightened Rabbit's "Backwards Walk." Continue reading… more info

Chorus.fm — Death Cab for Cutie covered Richard Swift’s “Most of What I Know” for Sirius XM. more info

Chorus.fm — Death Cab for Cutie performed “Gold Rush” on Corden last night. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Joshua Cohen interviewed Harold Bloom at the Los Angeles Review of Books. Stereogum reconsidered Death Cab for Cutie's Something About Airplanes album on its 20th anniversary. Rebecca Solnit talked books and reading with the New York Times. Yo-Yo Ma.... more info

JamBase — Release Day Picks this week highlights new albums by Death Cab for Cutie, Animal Collective, Cory Wong, Fruition, Circles Around the Sun and Oh Sees. The post Release Day Picks: August 17th New Album Highlights appeared first on JamBase. more info

Consequence of Sound — Featuring "Gold Rush", "Autumn Love", "Your Hurricane", and "Summer Years" from the band's latest album, as well as their classic hit "Sound of Settling". more info